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... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.

... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.

The second part of how to hire: try not to.

In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect.

The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.

Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.

You also want people who are maniacally determined and that is slightly different than having a risk tolerant attitude.

If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.

You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time.